Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 8:14
Why — The people at length seem to bethink themselves, and thus to bespeak each other. Silent — Keep close within our walls.
Why — The people at length seem to bethink themselves, and thus to bespeak each other. Silent — Keep close within our walls.
The people rouse one another to exertion. “Why,” they ask, “do we remain here to be overwhelmed?” They are ready now to follow the command given (see the marginal reference), but with the conviction t...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis. verses:_ 14-16 spoken by the prophet, not the People. They were being threatened for not doing what is here spoken of, verses: Jeremiah 12:13. Moreover, Jeremiah 8...
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
See summary at commencement of section....
_be silent … put us to silence_ better, as mg. _perish … caused us to perish_. Cp. 1 Samuel 2:9. _water of gall_ a plant yielding some bitter flavour reminding of gall. It is mentioned also Jeremiah 9...
The people in their straits address one another. Cp. Jeremiah 4:5....
WHY DO WE SIT STILL?— This seems to be spoken in the person of the people who lived in open towns and villages, exhorting one another to repair to Jerusalem, and other fortified places, to seek for re...
C. Unavoidable Punishment at the Hand of God Jeremiah 8:13-17 TRANSLATION (13) I will utterly consume them (oracle of the LORD). No grapes are on the vine and no figs are on the fig tree. The leaves...
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, beca...
8:14 silent (c-20) Or 'let us perish.' silence, (d-30) Or 'made us to perish.' gall (e-36) See Psalms 69:21 ....
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
WHY DO WE SIT STILL?... — The cry of the people in answer to the threatening of Jehovah is brought in by the prophet with a startling dramatic vividness. They are ready to flee into the defenced citie...
עַל ־מָה֙ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ יֹֽשְׁבִ֔ים הֵֽאָסְפ֗וּ וְ...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
Why do we sit still? (i) assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of (k) gall to dri...
_Silent, in utter destruction, 1 Kings ii. 9. We cannot be in a worse condition._...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
This verse, and those which follow, are explained in different ways; but I will briefly shew the meaning of the Prophet. I have no doubt but that he speaks here in the name of the whole people. The Pr...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
WHY DO WE SIT STILL?.... In the country, where were barrenness and want of provisions; in the villages and unwalled towns, where they were exposed to the spoils and ravages of the enemy. These words,...
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, becau...
_Let us enter into the defenced cities_ In these verses the prophet seems to turn to and address his countrymen by way of apostrophe; and, as one of the people that dwelt in the open towns, advises th...
Why do we sit still? So the prophet hears the people of Judah cry out in view of the impending calamity. ASSEMBLE YOURSELVES, so they are represented as urging one another, AND LET US ENTER INTO THE D...
FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT...
GALL: Or, poison...
14-22 At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the pre...
WHY DO WE SIT STILL? the people at length seem to bethink themselves, and thus to bespeak each other. _Let us enter into the defenced cities_; in the scattered villages there is no safety for us, let...
Jeremiah 8:14 still H3427 (H8802) Assemble H622 (H8734) enter H935 (H8799) fortified H4013 cities H5892 silent...
JEREMIAH CALLS ON THE PEOPLE TO ENTER THEIR FORTIFIED CITIES BECAUSE THE INVADERS ARE COMING AND THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TERMS ACCEPTED OR HEALING OF THEIR REBELLION, FOR YHWH IS SENDING AMONG THEM SER...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
WHY SIT STILL? Why do we sit still? Jeremiah 8:14. Perhaps you think this is a funny sort of text, and that it isn't a bit suitable for boys and girls. There is a question you are much more accustom...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
2 Kings 7:3; 2 Kings 7:4; 2 Samuel 20:6; Amos 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:32;...